Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years. Recent research on fossil shark teeth has discovered an ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.